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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Back in the day, you could have a one eyed goaltender with no depth perception as a starter (Garrett).
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Begging your pardon, but what's this all about? NHL players have been required to have sight in both eyes ever since the Trushinski bylaw was passed in the 1920s.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
This streak is impressive because its happened in a more evolved NHL.
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Not sure I agree with this either. It's not as if the Flames are taking a team of 1970s players and throwing them out against the best the modern NHL has to offer. Every player has the same advantages now. Every player had the same disadvantages back then.
However, there is one respect in which I'll tip my hat to the Atlanta Flames: They didn't get fleeced by Sam Pollock. Back then, if a team won 10 in a row, you expected it to be an Original Six club (probably Montreal) or possibly the Flyers. Expansion teams had a nasty habit of trading away their top draft picks just to get enough journeyman NHLers to limp through the season. Cliff Fletcher was too smart for that, and his team's owners let him do his job. If he'd traded three first-round picks to the Habs for a roll of stick tape and a one-legged hobo (I'm looking at you, California Golden Seals), his team would never have had the horses to win 10 in a row.